TO ERADICATE HUNGER IN ONE GENERATION

• Proposed by Brazil and Guatemala in 2005

• Received support from all Heads of State and Government during the XVI Ibero American Summit (2006) and the First and Second Latin American and the Caribbean Integration and Development Summits (2008 and 2010).

• A priority of the countries in FAO’s 29th Regional Conference, confirmed at the 30th , 31st and 32nd Conferences.

A COMMITMENT FROM THE GOVERNMENTS

THE INITIATIVE’S STRUCTURE

• The HFLAC Initiative follows the mandate of the countries of the Region, represented in the 2025 Work Group (GT2025). This Group assembles once a year to assess progress and define priorities.

• Follow-up: FAO Regional Conferences, GRULAC and annual meetings

• FAO-RLC houses the Technical Secretariat of the Initiative, which executes the mandate of the countries, promotes the agenda and supports collaboration

• Financial support rests mainly with AECID, with the recent addition of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Fund

• Government institutions, policy and programmes are the main tool to progress towards food security

• Social actors (interest groups, NGOs, academia, citizens in general) play an increasingly relevant role

• Regional integration bodies (UNASUR, CAN, SICA, CARICOM)

• Links to World Committee on Food Security to advance governance in food security issues (HFLACI as liaison between countries and the Committee)

WHO FORMS PART OF THE INITIATIVE

1. Institutional development

2. Policy and program formulation /implementation

3. Monitoring and information systems

4. Awareness-raising and social mobilization

HFLACI WORKS IN FOUR FRONTS

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS

• Institutional coordination mechanisms for FNS

• Stable mechanisms for participation and policy debate

• Legislation and regulatory frameworks for FNS

• Judicial bodies and mechanisms

• A right to food approach

• Adequate budget allocation

POLICIES AND PROGRAMS

• Regional/national policy development to advance FNS issues in the countries

• Seminars, debates, workshops on policy issues: six seminars on CCT, social protection and FNS; small scale agriculture workshops; IEC in FNS regional workshop

• Support analysis and research of thematic areas including small scale farming, school feeding, social protection, nutrition education

POLICIES AND PROGRAMSREGIONAL INTEGRATION BODIES

CARICOM : FNS Regional Policy, FNS Action Plan, strengthening FSN capacities, RF and civil society organizations

SICA: PRESANCA, convergence between FOPREL y PARLACEN, IEC in food and nutrition, technical-political debate, national and regional PESA programs

UNASUR : pilot project proposal around FNS issues at the subregional level

AWARENESS-RAISING AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION

• Directed to parliamentarians (PFH), judicial power, ombudsmen, social leaders

• Develop right to food concept and implementation (RFO)

• Capacity building among civil society

• Support given to artistic expressions around FNS issues (literature, music, chefs network)

MONITORING AND INFORMATION

• Information and communication of food security news and progress in the region

• Mapping (legislation, social policy, small farming, nutrition, parliamentary fronts)

• Right to Food National Reports

• Regional Food Security Report

• Reports on specialized topics

FNS INFORMATION EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION

• Country studies on Food and Nutrition IEC conducted in 2011

• Regional technical workshop and political meeting in El Salvador 2011 (declaration to strengthen policies and institutions in nutrition education)

• Publications on study findings

• Mapping of nutrition facts/actions

• Thematic contribution to the annual FAO report

• Technical cooperation for food guides, school gardens, training of monitors, other areas

• The HFLAC Initiative as strategic framework for technical cooperation by the FAO in the region; alignment of technical backstopping

• A regional/subregional platform for discussion, exchange, cooperation in relevant thematic areas

• Channels to impact political agendas through the Parliamentary Front against Hunger, Regional Observatory on the Right to Food, regional integration bodies

• Potential to drive national/regional processes, putting regional capacities in motion in benefit of the countries

WHAT DOES THE INITIATIVE OFFER?

Muchas gracias

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The Hunger-Free Initiative receives financial support from the

Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) and the

Federal Government of Brasil

HUNGER IS AN URGENT PROBLEM

• 53 million people suffer hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• 9 million children suffer chronic undernourishment

• Hunger has serious economic implications: productivity loss, high health, social and human costs.

THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL PARTICIPATION

• There is not much institutions and laws can do without the empowerment of society to monitor the actions of governments.

• A wider appropriation of rights and duties by the members of the communities is of great importance.

• The citizen’s capacity to demand the fulfillment of their rights has to be strengthened.

• The participation of the Private Sector has to be reinforced to give businesses paths to assist in the struggle against hunger.

In the last GT 2025 Meeting, it was agreed to give society a greater role in the Initiative